Hook-and-eye fastening.



N. M. BAILEY.

HOOK AND EYE FASTENING.

APPLiCATlON FILED NOV. 3, 1914.

1,138,439. Patented May 4, 1915.

WQi We'J QS: W- W W E a e 21%02" NELLIE M. BAILEY, or KINSALE, VIRGINIA;

HO0K AND-EYE FASTENING.

Speeification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4,1915.

Application filed November 3, 1914; Serial No. 870,136.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, N ELLIE M. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States,residing Kinsale, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Virginia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook-and-Eye Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hook and eye fastenings, and pertainsespecially to the class of hooks and eyes adapted to be attached withoutsewing and without separate or independent means of attachment.

The object of the invention is to provide in a hook and eye fastening, ahook portion composed of one piece of suitable wire, and an eye portioncomposed of a single piece of suitable wire, the wire of the respectiveportions being looped and twisted so as to form a closed end in eachportion, an eye in one portion, an eye-engaging hook in the otherportion, and a pair of resiliently engaging members in each portion.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hook and eye fasteningof such simple, novel and peculiar construction as to afford asafety-pin fastening for the hook and for the eye, and so as to form apair of cooperating spring arms in each portion of the fastening, onearm of each pair constituting a securing pin, and the other arm of eachpair constituting respectively the hook and the eye members.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a hook and eyedevice which shall embody in each portion thereof a pair of resilientarms adapted to be hooked together in parallel position and parallelwith the closing or meeting edges of a garment or other article to whichthe device may be applied for fastening said edges together.

Various other objects, advantages, and improved results are attainablein the practical application of the invention, as will be explained inthe specification and set up 1n the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application Figure 1is a plan view showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the hook portion of the fastening in position to beapplied. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the eye portion with the arms inlocked positlon.

The same reference characters denote the same parts throughout theseveral views of the drawings.

With the exception of the formation of the hook and eye both portions ofthe fastening are of the same shape and construction, therefore the hookportion of the fastening will only be described in detail. A singlepiece of spring wire is folded upon itself to form a rigid end 1, oneportion of the wire is looped around the other portion at 2, adjacent tothe end 1, so as to form a pair of resilient arms having their fulcrumat the loop 2. One arm 3 of said pair of arms has a hook 4 formedcentral thereof by twisting the wire of this arm and folding it backupon itself, and the wire of the arm 3 terminates in an open catch-eye5, for the end of the other or pin-arm 6. The pin-arm 6 is insertedthrough the material 7, adjacent to and parallel with the edges thereof,and the end or point of the arm is hooked into the catch-eye 5, wherebythe device is securely pinned in proper position and safe againstloosening or accidental displacement.

The eye portion of the fastening has a pin arm 8, and an arm 9v havingan eye 10 formed central thereof for the hook 4:, and this portion ofthe fastening is secured to the material 11, by inserting the pin armtherethrough adjacent to and parallel with the edge of thematerialopposite the hook portion of the fastening.

It will be observed that the arms are preferably made serpentine shapeso that they mesh one with the other to hold the material therebetweenmore securely, that the fastening is secured parallel with the meetingedges of the material, and that upon releasing the pin arm and the hookand eyearms they will spring apart, whereupon the pin arms may bewithdrawn and replaced as desired or as occasion may demand.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting the invention to anyparticular size, nor to the application of the fastening, andv reserveto myself the right to make such changes therein in the manufacturethereof as may come within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In a hook and eye fastening device, a hookmember and an eye member each composed of a single piece of wire, thewire of each member being folded centrally to form a pair of laterallydiverging loops, serpentine arms looped together in a pair for eachmember and projecting from the lateral loops centrally between thelatter and meshing throughout their length for clamping therebetween thematerial to Whichthey are pinned, one of the arms of each pairterminating in a pin point, and the other arms having respectively ahook and an eye centrally thereof and terminating in an open Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the ringfor catching the points therein, all of said arms adapted to swingparallel with the lateral loops in opening and closing movements.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of tWoWitnesses.

NELLIE M. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. SNOW, WALTER D. PARKS.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

